opportunity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Article Images
From opportune + -ity, from Middle French opportunité, from Latin opportunitas.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒpəˈtjuːnɪtɪ/, /-ˈt͡ʃuː-/
- (General American) enPR: ä'pər-to͞oʹnə-tē, IPA(key): /ˌɑpɚˈt(j)unəti/, [-ɾi]
- Hyphenation: op‧por‧tun‧i‧ty
opportunity (countable and uncountable, plural opportunities)
- A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
- seize the opportunity
- take an opportunity
- missed opportunity
The world is full of opportunities and it's up to me to see them and pursue them.
the opportunity came and went
You'll get a second opportunity if you miss this one.
2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Chelsea also struggled to keep possession as QPR harried and chased at every opportunity, giving their opponents no time on the ball.
- A favorable circumstance or occasion.
Having a holiday is a great opportunity to relax.
- (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness
The Court questioned the opportunity of introducing these measures in such an uncertain economic climate.
- business opportunity
- equal opportunity
- equal-opportunity
- golden opportunity
- golden opportunity
- ladder of opportunity
- Land of Opportunity
- land of opportunity
- opportunity class
- opportunity cost
- opportunity knocks
- opportunity knocks at every man's door
- opportunity makes a thief
- opportunity room
- opportunity seldom knocks twice
- opportunity servicing
- opportunity shop
- opportunity window
- photo opportunity
- target of opportunity
- universal opportunity
- when opportunity knocks
- window of opportunity
- window of opportunity
chance for advancement, progress or profit
- Albanian: mundësi (sq) f, shans m, nge (sq) f
- Arabic: فُرْصَة f (furṣa)
- Egyptian Arabic: فرصة f (furṣa)
- Armenian: հնարավորություն (hy) (hnaravorutʻyun)
- Asturian: oportunidá f
- Azerbaijani: imkan (az), fürsət (az)
- Bashkir: форсат (forsat)
- Belarusian: магчы́масць f (mahčýmascʹ), шанс m (šans), шанц m (šanc)
- Bengali: মওকা (bn) (moōka)
- Bulgarian: възмо́жност (bg) f (vǎzmóžnost), шанс (bg) m (šans)
- Burmese: အခွင့်အရေး (my) (a.hkwang.a.re:)
- Catalan: oportunitat (ca) f, ocasió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: příležitost (cs) f, šance (cs) f
- Danish: mulighed (da) c, chance (da) c
- Dutch: kans (nl) f, mogelijkheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: okazo, oportuno
- Estonian: võimalus
- Finnish: tilaisuus (fi), mahdollisuus (fi)
- French: occasion (fr) f, opportunité (fr) f
- Galician: oportunidade (gl) f, vagar (gl) m, emposta f
- Georgian: შესაძლებლობა (šesaʒlebloba), შანსი (ka) (šansi)
- German: Gelegenheit (de) f, Chance (de) f, Möglichkeit (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐍅 n (lēw)
- Greek: ευκαιρία (el) f (efkairía)
- Hebrew: הִזְדַּמְנוּת (he) f (hizdamnut)
- Hindi: अवसर (hi) m (avsar), मौक़ा m (mauqā)
- Hungarian: alkalom (hu), lehetőség (hu)
- Hunsrik: Gelechenheet f, Gelechenheit f
- Icelandic: færi n
- Irish: faill f, deis (ga) f
- Italian: occasione (it) f, opportunità (it) f, possibilità (it) f, chance (it) f
- Japanese: 機会 (ja) (きかい, kikai), チャンス (ja) (chansu)
- Kabuverdianu: txansa, xanse
- Kazakh: мүмкіндік (mümkındık)
- Khmer: ឱកាស (km) (ʼaokaah)
- Korean: 기회(機會) (ko) (gihoe), 찬스 (ko) (chanseu)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: мүмкүндүк (ky) (mümkündük), мүмкүнчүлүк (ky) (mümküncülük)
- Lao: ໂອກາດ (ʼō kāt)
- Latin: opportūnitās f, ampla f
- Latvian: iespēja f
- Lithuanian: próga f
- Macedonian: можност f (možnost), шанса (mk) f (šansa)
- Malayalam: അവസരം (ml) (avasaraṁ), തക്കം (ml) (takkaṁ)
- Maltese: opportunità f
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: ashja
- Northern Sami: vejolašvuohta
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: oportunitat (oc) f
- Pashto: فرصت (ps) m (fersát)
- Persian: فرصت (fa) (forsat), شانس (fa) (šâns)
- Polish: gratka f, możliwość (pl) f, okazja (pl) f, pretekst (pl) m, sposobność (pl) f, szansa (pl) f
- Portuguese: oportunidade (pt) f
- Romanian: oportunitate (ro) f
- Romansch: pussaivladad f (Rumantsch Grischun)
- Russian: возмо́жность (ru) f (vozmóžnostʹ), шанс (ru) m (šans)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: príležitosť f, šanca f
- Slovene: priložnost (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: góźba f
- Spanish: oportunidad (es) f
- Swahili: fursa (sw)
- Swedish: tillfälle (sv), möjlighet (sv) c
- Tajik: фурсат (fursat), имконият (tg) (imkoniyat), имкон (imkon)
- Tatar: форсат (tt) (forsat)
- Telugu: అవకాశం (te) (avakāśaṁ)
- Thai: โอกาส (th) (oo-gàat)
- Turkish: fırsat (tr)
- Turkmen: pursat
- Ukrainian: можли́вість f (možlývistʹ), шанс m (šans)
- Urdu: فرصت f (fursat), موقع m (mauqa')
- Uyghur: پۇرسەت (purset)
- Uzbek: imkoniyat (uz), fursat (uz)
- Vietnamese: cơ hội (vi) (機會)
- Zhuang: gihvei
favorable circumstance or occasion
- Asturian: oportunidá f
- Bashkir: форсат (forsat)
- Bengali: মওকা (bn) (moōka)
- Bulgarian: удо́бен случа́й m (udóben slučáj)
- Catalan: oportunitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: příležitost (cs) f, šance (cs) f
- Danish: mulighed (da) c
- Dutch: gelegenheid (nl) f
- Finnish: tilaisuus (fi)
- French: occasion favorable f, opportunité (fr) f (anglicism)
- Galician: oportunidade (gl) f
- German: Gelegenheit (de) f
- Greek: ευκαιρία (el) f (efkairía)
- Hungarian: alkalom (hu)
- Italian: opportunità (it) f, occasione (it) f
- Kabuverdianu: txansa, xanse
- Latin: opportūnitās f
- Occitan: oportunitat (oc) f
- Plautdietsch: Jeläajenheit f
- Polish: gratka f, możliwość (pl) f, okazja (pl) f, pretekst (pl) m, sposobność (pl) f, szansa (pl) f
- Portuguese: oportunidade (pt) f
- Russian: удо́бный слу́чай m (udóbnyj slúčaj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: góźba f
- Spanish: oportunidad (es) f
- Swahili: fursa (sw), nafasi (sw)
- Ukrainian: наго́да f (nahóda)
Translations to be checked
- “opportunity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “opportunity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.